[PATCH net 2/4] net: ti: icssg-prueth: Report BQL before sending XDP packets

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Thu May 1 07:53:57 PDT 2025


On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:34:57 +0530 Meghana Malladi wrote:
> When sending out any kind of traffic, it is essential that the driver
> keeps reporting BQL of the number of bytes that have been sent so that
> BQL can track the amount of data in the queue and prevents it from
> overflowing. If BQL is not reported, the driver may continue sending
> packets even when the queue is full, leading to packet loss, congestion
> and decreased network performance. Currently this is missing in
> emac_xmit_xdp_frame() and this patch fixes it.

The ordering of patches in the series is a bit off.
The order should be something like:

  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Set XDP feature flags for ndev
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix kernel panic during concurrent Tx queue ...
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix race condition for traffic from different ...
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Report BQL before sending XDP packets

This patch is not correct without the extra locking in place.



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